is a Japanese

voice actress Voice acting is the art of performing voice-overs to present a character or provide information to an audience. Performers are called voice actors/actresses, voice artists, dubbing artists, voice talent, voice-over artists, or voice-over talen ...

and singer from Kyoto Prefecture who is affiliated with Digital Double. She is known for her roles as Kasumi Nakasu in '' Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club'' and Ayaka Mizusawa in ''

PuraOre! Pride of Orange is a mixed-media project produced by CyberAgent and DMM Games about girls playing ice hockey. An anime television series produced by CAAnimation and C2C aired from October to December 2021, while a mobile game developed by EXNOA was released ...

''.

Biography

Sagara was born in Kyoto Prefecture on April 17, 1995. She had an interest in

anime is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japanese, (a term derived from a shortening of ...

from a young age and wanted to pursue a career as a

by the time she was in her sixth year of elementary school. This desire was strengthened after watching the anime series '' Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha'' and noticing that its lead cast members,

Yukari Tamura is a Japanese voice actress and singer affiliated with Amuleto (formerly Arts Vision and I'm Enterprise). She debuted as a voice actress in 1997, releasing her debut single "Yūki o Kudasai" on March 26, 1997. Her role as Nanoha Takamachi in th ...

and

Nana Mizuki is a Japanese voice actress, singer and narrator from Niihama, Ehime. She is represented by the agency StarCrew. Mizuki was trained as an enka singer, releasing one single under her birth name, Nana Kondō, in 1993 and made her debut as a voic ...

, performed the show's opening and ending themes. After graduating from high school she enrolled in a training school operated by the voice acting agency Pro-Fit; after completing her training, she became affiliated with the agency's subsidiary Link-Plan. Sagara's first named voice acting role was as the character Mirai Kajiwara in the anime series '' Idol Memories''. In 2017 she was cast as the character Kasumi Nakasu in '' Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club''. In 2020 she voiced Moe Isurugi in '' Warlords of Sigrdrifa''. That same year she left Link-Plan and transferred to talent agency Digital Double. In 2021 she played Ayaka Mizusawa in ''

''. On September 8, 2023, she made her solo singer debut under

Universal Music Japan , often referred to as just Universal Music Japan or UMJ, is a Japanese subsidiary of the Universal Music Group founded in 1990. It is the largest subsidiary for a foreign company in the country regarding music distribution. The company is resp ...

with her first album releasing on November 15, 2023.

Filmography

Anime

;2015 *'' World Break: Aria of Curse for a Holy Swordsman'', Student ;2016 *'' Idol Memories'', Mirai Kajiwara ;2017 *'' Idol Time PriPara'', Chako ;2019 *''

Hensuki also known in the short form is a Japanese harem, romantic comedy light novel series written by Tomo Hanama and illustrated by sune. It was published by Media Factory under their MF Bunko J imprint from January 2017 to January 2022. A tota ...

'', Announcer *''

Kiratto Pri Chan , short for ''Sparkling Prism☆Channel'', is a Japanese arcade game by Takara Tomy Arts. It is the successor to '' Pretty Rhythm'', '' PriPara'', '' Idol Time PriPara'' and the third entry in Takara Tomy's ''Pretty Series''. An anime te ...

'', Yukari Daikuhara *'' Demon Lord, Retry!'', Manami ;2020 *'' Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club'', Kasumi Nakasu *'' Warlords of Sigrdrifa'', Moe Isurugi ;2021 *'' Waccha PriMagi!'', Miruki Amauri *''

'', Ayaka Mizusawa ;2022 *'' Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club 2nd Season'', Kasumi Nakasu *'' Teppen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Laughing 'til You Cry'', Kana Kiyotsuru *''

Aru Asa Dummy Head Mike ni Natteita Ore-kun no Jinsei is a Japanese original short anime television series co-animated by Ekachi Epilka and Indivision and directed by Yoshinobu Kasai. Original character designs were provided by cura, while Yoshinori Ōtsuka adapted the designs for animation. The ...

'', Ume Toranomon ;2023 *'' My Life as Inukai-san's Dog'', Mike Nekotani

Video games

;2019 *''

Love Live! School Idol Festival All Stars (often abbreviated as ''LLSIF'' or ''Sukufesu'') is a Japanese rhythm game series. The original game, developed by KLab and published by Bushiroad's Bushimo, was first released in Japan on April 15, 2013 for iOS and June 8, 2013 for Android. The ...

'', Kasumi Nakasu ;2020 *''Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni Mei'', Kazuho Kimiyoshi ;2022 *''

Azur Lane ''Azur Lane'' () is a side-scrolling video game, side-scrolling shoot 'em up video game created by Chinese developers Shanghai Manjuu and Xiamen Yongshi, released in 2017 for the iOS and Android (operating system), Android operating syst ...

'', Z16 Friedrich Eckoldt

References

External links

Official agency profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sagara, Mayu 1995 births Living people Japanese video game actresses Japanese voice actresses Nijigasaki High School Idol Club members Voice actresses from Kyoto Prefecture 21st-century Japanese singers 21st-century Japanese women singers Singers from Kyoto Prefecture Universal Music Japan artists